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Perth’s precocious Hannah Green has set her sights on catching a runaway Korean to become just the fourth local golfer to win the Australian Open. The 21-year-old will start Sunday’s final round at Kooyonga in Adelaide four shots shy of pacesetter Jin Young Ko. Hannah Green during the third round of the Australian Women’s Open. Mark

LOS ANGELES — Give Tiger Woods credit for being all-in on his comeback. There might not be enough Bridgestone golf balls in his bag to handle the brutal test that is PGA National in Florida, given the way he just hit them in California, but he will endure regardless. The PGA Tour announced during the

LOS ANGELES — Patrick Cantlay ran off three straight birdies toward the end of his morning round Friday at Riviera Country Club, starting with a tap-in on the par-3 sixth when he missed a hole-in-one by a fraction of an inch, and shot a 69 for a share of the lead at the Genesis Open.

LOS ANGELES — A continual combination of missed fairways, missed greens and missed putts added up to a missed cut for Tiger Woods at the Genesis Open on Friday. Playing just his third event since a fourth back surgery last year, Woods struggled to find any rhythm and maintain any momentum on a Riviera Country

LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods will play his other hometown event, the Honda Classic, next week. The PGA Tour announced during the second round of the Genesis Open on Friday that Woods had committed to the event in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, near his Jupiter home. Tiger Woods struggled all day at Riviera, shooting 76

Golfing great Karrie Webb has missed the cut, while Korea’s Jin Young Ko isn’t getting strung out at the prosect of a wire-to-wire Australian Open win. Ko will take a three-shot buffer into the third round at Adelaide’s Kooyonga Golf Club after keeping her overnight lead on Friday with a composed three-under-par. Ko is 10

LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods‘ return to his hometown event for the first time in 12 years brought some of the same frustrations he encountered when he played the Genesis Open at Riviera Country Club during his prime. Woods had a few struggles off the tee — he had a lost ball on his second

Matthew Southgate and Paul Waring shared the lead after day one of the inaugural Oman Open in Muscat. The English duo are both searching for their first European Tour wins but entered the campaign on the back of career-best seasons in 2017 having overcome considerable adversity over the years. Coming off back fusion surgery, Tiger

Former world No.1 Lydia Ko knows she’s getting bagged for swinging changes almost as much as her golf clubs. The New Zealander carded a four-under-par 68 in Thursday’s opening round of the Australian Open in Adelaide, three shots behind South Korea’s pacesetter Jin Young Ko. Another South Korean, Jiyai Shin, is outright second at five

LOS ANGELES — Rory McIlroy played with Tiger Woods around Thanksgiving and was surprised by how far the 14-time major winner had come in such a short time following April 2017 back surgery. Now he’ll get to see him up close again — and when it counts — during the first two rounds of this